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A FINE SILVER SWORD

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A FINE SILVER SWORD
MAKER'S MARK OF WILLIAM COWELL JR., BOSTON, CIRCA 1740

The silver hilt with double oval counterguard applied with a bead molding, a braided silver wire grip, a bowed knuckle guard, and a molded pommel with ball tip, with steel blade, the knuckle guard engraved SB; marked with initial mark (Buhler, p. 675) on upper knuckle guard; together with a silver scabbard mount
38 3/8in. long

拍品专文

Six closely related swords by Jacob Hurd are known. One is in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston illustrated in Kathryn C. Buhler, American Silver in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1972, fig. 174, p. 212 and the other is at Winterthur, illustrated in Ian Quimby, American Silver at Winterthur, 1995, fig. 85, p. 130.